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Updated: June 10, 2025
It was the distant teuf-teuf of a powerful motor car, labouring heavily through deep sand. Stephen was travelling in a carriage, which he had hired in Biskra, and was keeping as close as he dared to the vehicle in front, shared by Maïeddine and a French officer. But he never let himself come within sight or sound of it.
"I don't think there's any use waiting any longer. You won't want to hurry yourself too much, and you will want to be in Biskra in time for dinner," she said as casually as she could. He swung towards her. "Diana, it's still not too late to change your mind. For Heaven's sake give up this folly. It's tempting Providence."
He seemed delighted at having understood us at last, and soon led us to the mosque, from whence we knew our way to the place where we had left our luncheon. We had crossed the desert in the early morning, and were obliged to seek a resting-place in the shade during the hot hours of the day. This we found in a house belonging to a son of the caid of Biskra.
But I won't marry him and he agrees unless you'll promise to come to Algiers with us a month from now. You'll lend him to us, won't you?" she turned pleadingly to Sorell "we'll take such care of him. Douglas you may be surprised! is going to read law at Biskra!" Otto sank into a chair. The radiance had gone. He looked very frail and ghostly. But he took Connie's outstretched hand.
And, drawing her wrap around her with a little shudder, Lady Conway stalked majestically across the wide verandah of the Biskra Hotel. The two men left standing by the open French window that led into the hotel ballroom looked at each other and smiled. "Some peroration," said one with a marked American accent. "That's the way scandal's made, I guess." "Scandal be hanged!
The clamor of the market ceased and the Mussulmans fell upon their knees, facing the east and Mecca. The camels were already kneeling, but they were facing the north and Biskra. While the faithful were praying, the unbelievers from the Soudan fell back and stood silent. A cry to God, no matter what god, silences the patter of the market-place. Abdullah prayed as a child beseeches his father.
She will be the only Christian woman in Biskra. Say 'yes' or 'no' to the bearer. I am halted a mile outside of the town, awaiting your answer. "Mirza, the mother of the Almees, has a certain claim upon my wife; how valid I do not know. I need counsel, but first of all I need shelter. May I come? "Of course he may come," said the commandant; "what is to prevent?"
"So would I," he said drily, "for if you loved me you would bore me and I should have to let you go. While as it is" he laughed softly "as it is I do not regret the chance that took me into Biskra that day." He let her go and got up with a yawn, watching her approvingly as she crossed the tent.
The little man in black kept dealing solitaire. The commandant read the letter to himself and laughed, and then he read it aloud: "To Monsieur the COUNT D'APREMONT, Commandant at Biskra. "MONSIEUR: Since last I saw you strange things have happened. I have turned Christian, and I have married. I wonder at which of these statements you will laugh most. "May I bring my wife to your house?
Mustafa Ali's were wavering now as she looked at him, and it occurred to her that they had not seemed nearly so shifty in Biskra when she had engaged him. But she attached no importance to the thought, and dismissed it as much less interesting than the great difference displayed in their respective modes of riding. The Arab's exaggeratedly short stirrup would have given her agonies of cramp.
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